I got back to Orlando yesterday afternoon. What an incredibly long flight from Dubai to home. I was more than a bit discombobulated and remain so as I type this. After the 15 hour + flight, and the three hour layover, and the 8 hour flight from J-burg to Dubai before that, my legs were […]
June 19/20, 2016 – Gaspings and Ravings From An Oxygen and REM Deprived Mind at 37,000 Feet Fourteen hours. That’s the flight time to Dubai. Then after a few hours layover, we fly another 8.5 hours to Johannesburg. It’s a long trip, but I built in a hotel stay to enable us to at least […]
Bags are packed and checked in. Seats assigned. Sitting in the airport waiting to board. I ran this morning a short-ish 6 miler as I’ll be sitting for quite some time. I’m leaving on a jet plane for Johannesburg. And to get there, I’m flying through Dubai. I think Mom is more excited about flying […]
So, yeah. Dehydration is still a thing. Nutritional choices is today’s thing. I’ve been far too permissive of indulgences and, um, less than stellar food options. I’m heavy. And I’m feeling it. And so beginning July 1st, the halfway point of 2016 (how the hell did that happen?!), I’m making a mid-year resolution to redouble […]
Editor’s Note: Delayed Post From June 17, 2016: Yesterday I thought I was being smart by breaking up my run into two shorter distances. I ran a 5 miler in 47:01 and drank a bottle of water, then came home to have some Powerade and cool off. Went out for another 5 miler that found […]
Machu Picchu was not a secret to its people. Scholars for decades felt Hiriam Bingham had rediscovered a lost city of the Incans. Books were written, digs were dug, and artifacts displayed worldwide. Charleton Heston shot on location there, donning a fedora and a leather jacket to swashbuckle his way through a 1954 technicolor jungle […]
June 12, 2016 – The Long Voyage Home What a night. Each leg of the three flights are short. About an hour from Cusco to Lima, three hours from Lima to Bogota, and then three and a half to Orlando. But the layovers kill me. Two hours in Lima where I broke down and had […]
June 11, 2016 – Last Days of Peru I’ve scribbled out notes on slips of paper and in the iOS Notes App for the past few days but I haven’t finalized most of the blog posts. That’s on the agenda soon – the hardest part will be sorting through the photos and picking out the […]
June 10, 2016 – Machu Picchu City and The Return To Cusco I only had a day at Machu Picchu but it was really something. Today, I’m scheduled to catch the 1:37 PM PeruRail train back to Ollantaytambo so I have the morning free. I didn’t see a need to pay another US$40+ for another […]
Making my way through the world wide web today takes everything I got. Taking a break from all my worries of uploading photos sure would help a lot. Wouldn’t I like to get away? Sometimes I want to go… Onto the roads I know by name So I decided to take a break from photo […]